Photo: Jennie Faber from Toronto, Ontario, Canada · CC BY 2.0No public library stands in Lawrence Park North: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Locke, is 0.5 km away
Lawrence Park North is served by Toronto public library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioLawrence Park North’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Lawrence Park North grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Lawrence Park North: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Lawrence Park North on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. That is 1.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Toronto public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.5 km from Lawrence Park North
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Lawrence Park North.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Lawrence Park North; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lawrence Park North
Does Lawrence Park North have a public library?
There isn’t one in Lawrence Park North; people there use libraries such as Toronto Public Library - Locke, in Lawrence Park South.
How busy is Toronto public library?
13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 items borrowed in 2024.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).